Use double quotation marks (" ") to enclose phrases or entire sentences that were taken word for word from someone else. Quotation marks are not needed for paraphrasing. Example: The dog he brings on ...

For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks. This rule still holds for professionally edited prose: what you’ll ...

The Founding Fathers are frequently quoted in the gun control debate, but many of those quotations turn out to be fake. The most popular comment on a recent story about gun control featured a ...